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Harris, William |
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William F. Harris - Associate Professor
238 Stiteler Hall
Phone 898-7655
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1985
University of Virginia, Govt. and Foreign Affairs, 1972-73 |
Dr. Harris explores the connections between language and politics to develop systematic strategies of constitutional interpretation. Before coming to Penn, he served on the faculties of University of Michigan and Princeton; he has also worked for a Virginia newspaper and for the North Carolina Supreme Court. Dr. Harris has published on constitutional theory in the American Political Science Review, on politics and the news media in The South Atlantic Quarterly, and on the political effects of four-letter words in The Journal of Politics. He is an adjunct professor in the Law School.
Areas of Interest
• Constitutional Theory
• Political Theory
• Legal Philosophy
• Theories of Interpretation
• American Political Thought
• Politics of the News Media
Selected Publications
• The Interpretable Constitution. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
• American Constitutional Interpretation. (Foundation Press, 1986). [written and edited with Walter F. Murphy and James E. Fleming]
Course Sampler
• Constitution Making
• Interpreting the American Constitution
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